Bowers Mansion, Washoe Valley, Nevada
From wikipedia: "The Bowers Mansion, located between Reno and Carson City,
Nevada, was built in 1863 by Lemuel "Sandy" Bowers and his wife, Eilley Orrum Bowers,
and is a prime example of the homes built in Nevada by the new millionaires of the
Comstock Lode mining boom.
The mansion was the fulfillment of Eilley's dreams of prestige and respectability.
The mansion, designed by J. Neely Johnson, a builder and ex-governor of California,
combined Georgian Revival and Italianate architectural styles. It was modeled after a
design conceived by Eilley based on her recollection of elegant buildings in her native
Scotland. Indeed, the Bowers employed stonecutters from Scotland for the construction
of their new home, which eventually cost $300,000 to build, an exorbitant sum in the 1860s."
Oh, and I fooled around in post processing to make it a little spooky. :)